Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 12:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
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Role in This Section
Job 12:9 advances the thought unit with the words “Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?.” Job presses the unit's question through “Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?”, a line that belongs to Job Points to Prosperous Wrongdoers and Creaturely Witness.
Read It With
- Job 12:6–12:11
Read Job 12:9 with 12:6–12:11. Read alone, “Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job observes secure tents for robbers and tells the friends to learn from animals and the earth that life rests in God's hand.
Why It Needs Context
Job 12:9 depends on 12:6–12:11; isolating “Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Points to Prosperous Wrongdoers and Creaturely Witness.”
Read Job 12:6–11 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 12:6–12:11 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Points to Prosperous Wrongdoers and Creaturely Witness.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 6. 6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Verse 7. 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Verse 8. 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Verse 9. 9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Verse 10. 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Verse 11. 11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
Continue in Context
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Read Job 12:6–12:11 — Job Points to Prosperous Wrongdoers and Creaturely WitnessSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 12:6–12:11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 12:6–12:11
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